Ugh.

My nights are finished so early that I just have my hangover the same evening and wake up feeling spry and ready to chase a 2-year-old around the house.

I have never been hungover enough for it to impact my ability to care for my kids. But I have been hungover enough for me to hate life and everything in it while caring for my kids the next day. It’s enough for you to really try very very very hard to never be hungover. But that’s difficult when it takes so much less…

I am the father of two young boys. Two months ago, I made the decision to be sober for a full year. One major impetus for the decision was the challenge of trying to be a good parent after a night of drinking. Even sober, it can be so draining at times with young children.

I mean if we’re talking traditional Christmas, it’s pretty fucking dark. Germany has Krampus, Spain has a frickin’ witch, and Wales has a skeleton horse.

I thought this was an actual movie and I got really excited.

This could be the title of my autobiography.

At this point maybe it’s for the best. People on the right think governing is like “The Apprentice” but too many on the left think it’s like “The West Wing.”

Like seriously, I’m fucking disgusted that this is the level of discourse at the highest levels of our government. I remember being a naive kid and thinking the people in charge had to be smart and capable. Sometimes I wish I had never learned how the sausage is made.

I thought Spielberg was able to salvage RP1 into something forgettable but not out-and-out awful. Although as someone who doesn’t play video games my internal monologue for most of the movie was “holy shit you fucking nerds are ridiculous.”

Yes — she goes to jail for 6 months, and is billed for being in jail for 6 months, and can’t pay it because she’s been in jail for 6 months so they send her back to jail. Additionally, they put her kid in the foster system, and he’s adopted by people who tell him that 1) she never loved him, and anyway 2) she’s dead…

One of my friends suggested I run for a local office a couple of years ago, because I’m generally pretty civic minded. She was surprised when I told her I could never get elected. Why? I’m an atheist and I refuse to lie about that with some bullshit lipservice like, “I was raised Catholic.”

Meanwhile a woman is being held in Rikers without bail because she sat on the floor in a public office.

FREE counselling?!? For the rapist, not the victim?!

I live a secular life, and I think I’m largely a good person. It drives me insane that predators and scammers like these can claim a moral high ground over me because of their religion, and our society will largely agree.

“And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.”

freedom, equality and resistance

With a head of blond hair, Mr. Ayers somewhat resembles Mr. Trump in his younger days, a fact that the president often looks for as a positive signal.

He doesn’t miss her; he misses having things both ways.

Nah. You can say what you want, but there are always consequences. People say things, stand by them, and are prepared to lose their jobs for it (see Kaepernick). If that’s not what you’re prepared to do, then don’t offend the people responsible for paying you. That means, if your paycheck depends on the public, don’t…